El Conde de Torrefiel

Austrian premiere

A wall on the stage, as if waiting for strange projections from the distance or memories from the future: the plot of La luz de un lago is woven from fragments of the lives of characters from different places at different times. This highly evocative work tells a story of love and emptiness, work and violence, oscillating visually between illusions and hallucinations while offering trenchant observations on a society full of contradictions and conflicts. With appearances as textual invocations: a couple who met at a concert in Manchester in the past, two secret lovers in Athens, a trans woman in Paris, and an opera premiere in a future Venice. Scenographic spatial interpretations and suggestive sound elements lure the audience into the vortex of an elusive but all the more fascinating stage creation. A rift cuts through the world – and creates a dream full of realities.

Written and directed by Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert | With Mireia Donat Melús, Mauro Molina, Isaac Torres | Set: El Conde de Torrefiel & La Cuarta Piel Videos: Carlos Pardo and María Antón Cabot | Sound: Rebecca Praga & Uriel Ireland | Technical director: Isaac Torres | Technicians on tour: Uriel Ireland, Guillem Bonfill, Roberto Baldin 

Co-produced by ICEC – Gen. de Catalunya, Festival GREC – Barcelona, CC Conde Duque – Madrid, Maison St. Gervais – Geneva, Teatro Municipal de Porto, Festival d’Automne de Paris, Festival delle Colline Torinesi, Festival Contemporanea – Prato, VIERNULVIER – Gent 

Content note: depictions of violence and parts with stroboscopic lights